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CROP CIRCLES NOT A HOAX

[WeeklyUniverse.com]..Despite
the claims of self-proclaimed hoaxers, it may be that NO crop circle is
man-made!

That's
the startling claim of former Catholic seminarian Regis Schilken, author
of the occult thriller The
Oculi Incident -- and an expert in the miraculous and the bizarre!

"Science
denigrates crop
circles as hoaxes," Schilken revealed to the
Weekly Universe in an exclusive interview! "In studies of cereology or ago-glyphs, as the
study of crop
circles is called, scientists feel that most if not all crop circles
can be explained by human ingenuity. But there is convincing evidence
that allcrop
circles are not man-made!"

* Some stems seem intertwined in patterns --
which would require an impossible amount of time!

* Plants which should have broken
-- continue
to grow normally!

* Compasses appear not to work near or inside
some crop circles!

* Plants with nodular stalks have unusually
darkened, enlarged nodes!

Does Schilken
Believe in Crop Circles?

On November
22, 2005, Schilken wrote in an email to the Weekly Universe:

"Your current
story in WEEKLY UNIVERSE literally cracked me up. It is absolutely
hilarious but full of falsehoods. ... Crop circles are a COMPLETE
HOAX. Your story probably caused many laughs among my friends, but
I am a complete and total disbeliever in crop circles."

Yet in an
email interview last August, Schilken wrote to us:

"It seems
that science as a whole denigrates crop circles as hoaxes. In studies
of cereology or ago-glyphs, as the study of crop circles is often called,
scientists feel that most, if not all can be explained by human ingenuity.

Yet, there
is some rather convincing evidence [our emphasis] that ALL crop circles are not man made.

1.
Some have appeared overnight with no evidence of tracks leading to or from.2.
Plants which would normally break if bent severely remain curved and unbroken.3.
Some stems seem intertwined in patterns which would require an impossible
amount of time.4.
The plants which should have broken continue to grow normally.5.
Compasses appear not to work near or inside some crop circles.6.
Plants with nodular stalks seem to have unusually darkened, enlarged nodes.

"Some rather
convincing evidence" were Schilken's words. Sure sounded to us like
he believed in crop circles.

About himself,
Schilken says: "In each of us is a personal knowledge that answers can
be found, otherwise we would not search. I was a seminarian for 5
years because I thought priests and other religious persons had an inside
track to God -- to the Wholly Other. But I discovered that religious
belief is built on Faith, and I did not have that intense Faith.

"But it
defies reason to think that mankind is the ultimate end of evolution.
I believe that evolution is following an intelligent plan. The universe
is not heading for entrophy. Just the opposite. A wristwatch
left alone could never figure out its purpose. If it had intelligence
it may see that it is moving and running down, but it could not figure
out why it's doing so."

Regis Schilken
is the author of The
Oculi Incident, an occult thriller about a Catholic priest who investigates
miracles.

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